“If you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you – you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.”
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Category: Classics
Quote of the Day – July 12, 2019
“The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.”
― The Trumpet of the Swan
Book Review: Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Mary Hays
Format: Paperback
Pages: 220 pages
Published: July 1, 2009 (First published 1796)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Genre: Fiction & Literature, Classics Continue reading “Book Review: Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Mary Hays”
Book Review: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Format: Paperback
Pages: 203 pages
Published: September 21, 2006 (First published 1924)
Publisher: Modern Library
Genre: Fiction & Literature, Science Fiction, Classics Continue reading “Book Review: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin”
Book Review: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Format: Paperback
Pages: 449 pages
Published: September 30, 1868
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Genre: Classics, Fiction & Literature, Young Adult, Children Continue reading “Book Review: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott”
Book Review: Mary and The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208 pages
Published: April 1, 2009 (First published 1788)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Genre: Fiction, Women’s Studies Continue reading “Book Review: Mary and The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft”
Book Review: We Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Format: Paperback
Pages: 158 pages
Published: 1962
Publisher: Penguin Books
Genre: Classics, Fiction & Literature, Horror Continue reading “Book Review: We Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson”
Book Review: Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192 pages
Published: 1928
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Genre: Classics, Fiction & Literature Continue reading “Book Review: Quicksand by Nella Larsen”
Book Review: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Format: Paperback
Pages: 410 pages
Published: August 1938
Publisher: HarperCollins
Genre: Fiction, Classics
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Book Review: Manga Classics: The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Stacy King
Format: Paperback
Pages: 308 pages
Published: October 17, 2017
Publisher: Udon Entertainment
Genre: Mangas, Classics, Graphic Novels
Synopsis:
The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant collection of some of his best-known stories: The Tell Tale Heart (a murder s haunting guilt), The Cask of Amontillado (a story of brilliant revenge), and The Fall of the House of Usher (an ancient house full of very dark secrets). Also included in this collection are The Mask of the Red Death (horrors of ‘the Plague’), and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven (a lover s decline into madness). Best read in a dimly-lit room with the curtains drawn, Poe s brilliant works come to life in darkly thrilling ways in this Manga Classic adaptation.” Continue reading “Book Review: Manga Classics: The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Stacy King”
